Celeste Barber explores the extremities of wellness in 'Wellmania'
If you're one of the 9.5 million people who follow Celeste Barber on Instagram, you already know the Australian comedian will do just about anything for a laugh.
There's no bikini too small and no pose too ludicrous for the 40-year-old, whose self-deprecating spoofs of celebrities like Kendall Jenner and Emily Ratajkowski have, ironically enough, turned her into a major influencer, one who uses her relatable physique to send up the unattainable standards of social media.
Now she's bringing her exuberant brand of comedy to "Wellmania," a Netflix series exploring the extreme and often dubious lengths people are willing to go to in the name of wellness.
Loosely adapted from "Wellmania: Extreme Misadventures in the Search for Wellness," a book by Australian journalist Brigid Delaney, the series stars Barber as Liv Healy, a hard-partying food writer forced to overhaul her decadent lifestyle and trade in cocaine for colonics after a health crisis.
The series, developed as a vehicle for Barber, is a showcase for her extremely physical style of performance: In the pilot episode, Liv crashes through a glass coffee
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